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...goods from one sector of the city to another. Some major civic issues would be dealt with on a citywide basis, while many basic municipal services (recreational facilities, schools, zoning) would be the separate responsibility of each of Jerusalem's quarters. A number of the world's largest cities already operate in this manner; London, for instance, is a confederation of semiautonomous boroughs. Jerusalem's borough governments would be chosen by the various communities; at the city level, responsibility would be vested in a council representing all parts of Jerusalem -East and West...
Inside the fortress-like structure, however, everything was different. In a $10 million renovation that is still going on, the "world's largest store"* is trying to shake its dowdy image and lure the fashion-and style-conscious shopper of the 1970s. Gone are the ground-floor budget counters where shoppers elbowed for hats, scarves and socks. Gone also are the unimaginative displays of cut-rate drugs and the dull racks of styleless garments. In their places are gleaming glass cases of jewelry and perfume, flanked by gold-crowned marble columns and overhung by glittering chandeliers. A plush green...
...from grounding McPhee's book, all this luggage helps it soar. Those who think they know quite enough, thank you, about Alaska are wrong. Not only is the area one of the last and largest stretches of true wilderness left on earth (and hence of atavistic concern); it is also the arena where the last act in a long American drama is being played out. McPhee characterizes the struggle as "the Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline...
...successor will inherit a salary of about $85,000, a stately mansion -and Yale's grave financial problems. Over a decade, the university's cumulative deficit has climbed to $16.6 million. Last year, Yale spent $209 million and ran $6.6 million in the red, the largest annual deficit in its history...
MIDWESTERN GIANT seeks experienced administrator to run nation's third largest university, with some 48,000 students, 3,405 faculty and $264 million budget. Offerings run from strong agricultural department to innovative performing arts programs. Current President Clifton Wharton, first black to head large, mostly white U.S. university, leaving at year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable...